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Greece’s Citizen Protection Ministry on Friday said it will ask for clarifications from French authorities regarding claims that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of the terror attacks in Paris, had passed through Greece.

In an announcement on Friday, the ministry said it had “regretfully been informed by open sources” that France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve had said in a press release that a non-European intelligence service had supplied information that Abaaoud, a Belgian-Moroccan resident in Molenbeek, Belgium, had been in Greece.

“This information was at no time confirmed and until today no source has given us any evidence that confirms the above claim, which is based solely on reports by open sources dating from January 2015 that are being constantly reproduced,” the ministry’s announcement said.

It concludes by asking French authorities to make the necessary clarifications publicly “in the framework of our excellent cooperation in fighting terrorism.”

Abaaoud died in a French police raid on Wednesday.